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After four months of development, a stable release of the Wayland protocol, inter-process communication mechanism, and libraries version 1.26 has been announced. The 1.26 branch is backward compatible at the API and ABI level with the 1.x releases and mainly includes bug fixes and minor protocol updates. Project deliverables are distributed under the MIT license. The reference compositor server Weston provides code and working examples for using Wayland […]
Support for the Loongson platform has been removed from OpenBSD, which was added in 2010 for MIPS-compatible Chinese processors Loongson 2E and 2F. The reason for its removal is attributed to build issues for the mips64el platform in new versions of the Clang compiler. Following an attempt to self-compile clang 22 (building clang 22 code using the clang 22 compiler), crashes began to occur that did not […]
An alternative build of the SSH client PuTTY 0.84 has been released, enhanced with features ported from the KiTTY fork, which was discontinued three years ago. The transfer of functionality from KiTTY to the current PuTTY codebase was almost entirely accomplished with ChatGPT/Codex. The changes primarily pertain to the interface and usability, without interfering with the core logic of PuTTY. Among the most notable changes: Session storage […]
On July 12th, version 0.3 of FSearch was released — a utility for quick file searching, modeled after Everything for Windows. The project is written in C and GTK3, and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license. FSearch features: instant results as you type; advanced search syntax; support for pattern and regular expression searches; filter support: search only for files, […]
After a year of development, the release of a new stable branch of the Perl programming language — 5.44 — has been announced. In preparing the new release, approximately 270,000 lines of code were changed (excluding documentation and automatically generated code — 110,000), with changes affecting 860 files, and 71 developers participated in the development. The 5.44 branch was released in accordance with the fixed proposal established thirteen years ago […]
Linus Torvalds commented on attempts to discuss banning the use of AI tools in Linux kernel development. The official stance is that the Linux kernel, as a project, does not oppose the use of AI. AI is viewed as a tool that simplifies coding, just like any other tools. The use of AI is a personal choice for each developer, and the main factor in accepting changes is the quality of the code, […]
Engineers from Canonical have warned about regressions in the upcoming update of package version 7.0.0-28.28, which will be delivered to Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 users. The regression manifests when using the amdgpu driver and leads to a significant drop in performance for some applications utilizing the AMD ROCm stack. For instance, due to the regression, the execution time of the Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) model using ComfyUI […]
The release of the OPNsense 26.7 distribution for creating firewalls has been published. This project separated from pfSense in 2015 with the goal of developing a fully open distribution that could provide functionalities at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not being controlled by a single company and is developed with direct community involvement and […]
Microsoft has released the source code for the IRC client ComicChat, where dialogues are illustrated in the form of comics generated based on characters chosen by the participants, reflecting their emotions. ComicChat uses the standard IRC protocol, can connect to regular IRC servers, and is compatible with text-based IRC clients. The code is written in C++ and is open under the MIT license. An expert system is used to shape the storyline of the frames, […]
The OpenBSD project has published a patch for the vulnerability (CVE-2026-57589) in the kernel, affecting the implementation of system calls for working with System V semaphores (sem). The issue is caused by accessing already freed memory in the sys_semget() function and can be exploited to gain root privileges by an unprivileged local user in a default configuration. The fix was included in the OpenBSD-current codebase on May 23, but for already […]
The release of the NTFS-3G package 2026.7.7 has been announced, which includes a free driver operating in user space using the FUSE mechanism and a set of ntfsprogs utilities for manipulating NTFS partitions. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version fixes 9 vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution with root privileges when processing specially crafted partitions or disk images with […]
The major branch release of nginx 1.31.3 has been formed, continuing the development of new features, along with the release of the concurrently supported stable branch nginx 1.30.4, which only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The updates address 3 vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-42533 — a buffer overflow occurring when using checks with regular expressions in the 'map' directive with substitutions […]